Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Letiště Brno-Tuřany is the Brno-Turany Airport and it is located within the city limits. It was built in the 1950s and in the 1980s it was used by the Czechoslovak Air Force. In 1989, the airport returned to civil use and today it is owned by the South-Moravian region.

The airport code is BRQ and it is the country's second busiest. This is also where we saw the Pope back in 2009. 2011 was its busiest year with 557,952 passengers.

My new landlord was the architect for the new departure hall and it won "Building of the Year" in 2007.

It is really convenient to fly in and out of Brno. If only there were more destinations. Ryanair has flights to London Stansted and Wizz Air has flights to London Luton and Eindhoven. A few years ago Ryanair flew to Alicante (Spain) and Wizz Air used to fly to Rome. I loved the Rome flight but I guess there wasn't enough demand for these flights.

SmartWings does have seasonal charter flights to Antalya, Burgas, Corfu, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Marsa Alam, Ostrava, Palma de Mallorca, Preveza, Rhodes, Tenerife-South, Tirana, Varna, Zakynthos.
This year BMI Regional is now offering daily flights to Munich. Well at least six days a week.

Hopefully this is the start of more direct flights so that I don't always have to fly out of Vienna or Prague. With so many international students here I'm sure there's got to be enough demand for flights to Spain or Italy. My vote is for a direct flight to Dublin.